Examined two recent studies of interviews with young children. Concludes that children are neither as hypersuggestible nor as resistant to suggestions about their own bodies as some defense attorneys and prosecutors claim and that children can provide highly detailed and accurate reports of events that transpired weeks or months ago. (MDM)

The present study addresses the need for teachers to critically evaluate the credibility, validity, and cognitive load associated with scientific information on Web sites, in order to effectively teach students to evaluate scientific information on the World Wide Web. A line of prior research investigating high school and university students'…

The current literature on instructional coaching shows that for the coaching relationship to be successful, the instructional coach must exhibit certain attitudes and behaviors to ensure the development of this relationship. These attitudes and behaviors include trustworthiness, respectfulness, credibility, enthusiasm, valuing of continuous…

Through a series of focus groups, this study explores how students, at the conclusion of a university-level media literacy course, see media's necessary role in democratic society. It is a narrative inspired by the core belief of the media literacy discipline that if people are effectively taught the critical skills to access, evaluate, analyze,…

The purpose of this research was to investigate the nature of listeners' attitudes toward foreign-accented speech and the manner in which those attitudes are formed. This study measured 165 participants' implicit and explicit attitudes toward US- and foreign-accented audio stimuli. Implicit attitudes were measured with an audio Implicit…

This article focuses on the author's applied anthropological work with the Ingham County Health Department between 1998 and 2001. Government administrators were reflexively aware that nobody had ever stepped back to assess the area's overall environmental health and rank the issues according to some criteria, such as by the "most urgent…

The historical fiction novel straddles the factual and the fictive recreation of past motivations that animate historical events. Through reading a work of historical fiction, Ursula Hegi's novel "Stones from the River," Kent den Heyer and Alexandra Fidyk offer a theoretical consideration of the following questions and their classroom…

Contemporary secondary education is marked by the standardization of both content and testing. The effect of this characterization on history, the humanities, and social studies results in a break from the spirit of these disciplines. Regarding history, the specific implications include objectification of causation and "the truth" about the past,…

The movement for multicultural or diversity-centered education has resulted in changes to the academic demography of the United States. Institutions of higher education have integrated the voices, knowledge, and lived experiences of various underrepresented cultures and excluded groups into their formal academic curriculum. A recent survey by the…

Discusses the relationship between research and evaluation. Presents several evaluation models currently used and discusses considerations for each of them. Categorizes arguments representing skepticism surrounding evaluation as psychological, academic, political, and even irrelevant. (JOW)

Addresses the criteria for judging the credibility of inquiries conducted within the naturalistic inquiry paradigm, defines naturalistic inquiry, explicates how the proposed criteria are dealt with in conventional inquiry, and outlines a mode for dealing with them within the naturalistic paradigm. Twenty-six sources are listed. (FM)

This reply to Kelly's critique of the author's "Logic" monograph (TM505882) concedes that what the evaluator persuades the audience of must be true. However, the evaluator's intent is to inform the course of action without expecting to determine fully the decision maker's judgment. (Author/RL)

Examines barriers that performance consultants face when selling an organization on HPT (human performance technology), such as establishing credibility, learning the language of the business, and demonstrating the ability to run the HPT function as a business. Explores strategies that can be employed to eliminate or reduce barriers. (Author/LRW)

Examines perceptions of the credibility of male and female syndicated political columnists. Finds that college students exhibited little prejudice against female versus male bylines in political interpretive columns. Finds a small tendency for male readers to evaluate male bylines higher in stereotypical ways, but female readers do not do this.…

Adult subjects were asked to judge the probability of a conclusion by itself and in the context of a related statement. When the conclusion and the related statement could be derived from the same explanation, the subjects judged the conclusion as more probable than when they judged the conclusion by itself. (BC)